edder

noun

1. (plural-normally)A long flexible stick, rod or other piece of wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.

   “[…] including the making [of] a stake and edder hedge. I had a large quantity of excellent manure out of this ditch, consisting of rotten wood, leaves, &c. &c. &c. But in this experiment I found that our stake and edder hedges are little more to be depended on than the fet ones.”

   “The stake-and-edder hedge prevails in this district.”

   “The scouring of the ditch is thrown up, a very thin stake and edder hedge is formed, and the rest of the wood made into bavins, and sold principally to bakers, at about a guinea per hundred delivered.”

2. An adder or snake.

   “winges like a bird she hase, Fete as an edder, a mayden's face, Her kinde I'll take”

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)To bind the top of, interweaving edder.

   “to edder a hedge”

   “[…] hedge, with live stakes and layers cut half in two, near the ground, and intertwisted among the stakes sufficiently to maintain their position without eddering the top. The sides of the hedge are cut alternately; […]”

   “Hazel and ash saplings make good switches, and there are many of these by the roadside, spraying like the forks of a fan. Later they will be used for "eddering" the other side of the lane.”